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Kinetic Grand Championship
Arcata, CA · Sports
- When
- May 29–31, 2027
- Where
- The Arcata Plaza · Arcata · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A three day, 42 mile race for homemade human powered sculptures across land, sand, mud, and open water between Arcata, Eureka, and Ferndale. It has run every Memorial Day weekend since 1969 in Humboldt County. The 2027 dates above are approximate, based on the event's fixed Memorial Day weekend slot.
The history within reach
- Kinetic Grand Championshipsame spot
A three day, 42 mile race for homemade human powered sculptures across land, sand, mud, and open water between Arcata, Eureka, and Ferndale.
A sculptor improved his son's tricycle into a five-wheeled contraption, a neighbour challenged him to a race, and it became a three-day, forty-two-mile crossing of road, sand, water and mud on human-powered art.
Ordered to join an expensive regional sewage plant, the town instead built a series of freshwater marshes on a former landfill and let plants and bacteria do the polishing.
- The Carson Mansion5.8 mi
A lumber baron kept a hundred mill hands busy through a slack winter by having them build him a house, using redwood, white mahogany from Central America and onyx from Mexico.
In February 1860, while the Wiyot were mid-way through their World Renewal ceremony, settlers crossed to this island at night and killed the women, children and elders with axes and knives, coordinated with attacks on two other villages the same night.